Table 3 Framework for PHC research priorities
From: Designing a framework for primary health care research in Canada: a scoping literature review
PHC Research Priorities | Description |
|---|---|
Research in practice | Action research. Creation of practice-based evidence that works in the real world to benefit the patients of participating physicians/clinics. Innovation. |
Research on practice | Implementation science; quality improvement. Directly useful to the specific physicians/clinics that participate in the research. Practice/clinical transformation. Spread. |
Research about practice | Knowledge-generating research that is not specific to a particular physician/clinic but is more generalized to the population as a whole and to the health care system (e.g., policy research, theory-building research, system transformation). Scale. |
Methods | Research methods that are the most appropriate (or most often used) in PHC research. Promising new approaches. |
Infrastructure | Organizations, processes, and resources needed for PHC research in Canada. |
Intersection of PHC and public/population health | The need for population health data for priority setting and collaborations to put knowledge into action. |